Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin
Here's what I'll concede though. People on both sides acknowledge all of the things GZ could've done differently, but I have yet to see any TM sympathizers acknowledge the same about TM. I'm not a parent, but when I do become one, I would teach my kids to call 911 if they're being followed, or, if they're as close to home as TM was, to run home and let me and the police deal with the "creepy ass you-know-what" (not that I'd be teaching my kids to use racist words though).
Edit: tricolordad, the burden is on you to prove that I am. Don't speculate.
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin
Dude, I've known a few "boys" that have died before their time doing **** that got them killed. Hell, one of my best friends got killed. Was it a sad occasion? Hell yes! I miss him every day! Was it his avoidable? You bet! He could have made a better choice than to act a fool. Was he wrong? Absolutely. But the fact is, he was doing the same thing to somebody else that Trayvon Martin was doing to George Zimmerman. He was upset because the guy was following him while he moved through the store stuffing things in his pocket in a neighborhood that was experiencing the rash of crime that magically occurred everywhere he went. He got mad and came back and attacked the manager after he was told to leave. The employee behind the counter blew him in half with a 20 gauge to keep him from knifing the manager. Did it make the news? No, because the shopkeeper was hispanic and my friend was white.
You have offered nothing but arguments that were proven wrong during the last 6 months. It boils down to race. There's no other logical assumption to make! There's no other argument coming from the Martin supporters. In the end, it's about hurt feelings based on the perceived color of a man's skin.
See your fellow supporters in those pictures I posted? They're defacing and burning the American flag. They're attacking the system that gives them the right to protest the government and burn flags in anger when the white house has facilitated and transported them to the very locations that they are destroying. They're attacking the system that would rather let 100 guilty men go free than imprison one single innocent man. When your fellow supporters act like that and commit an act of violence upon this great nation, it just shows that Zimmerman was right to pull that trigger and that Martin was a murderous piece of trash. This is what he was protecting himself from. The enemy. He protected not only himself, but the "creepy ass cracker" in the neighborhood that would inevitably have crossed paths with Trayvon Martin at night. Considering the jewlery and screwdriver recovered from Martin at school, the next victim probably would have encountered that moron in his own home.
Tricolordad, I've said nothing to suggest that my sympathies are racially motivated. Stop it!
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin
Instead of going home, Trayvon doubled back to attack someone who he used racist words to describe. The use of racist words proves that he hated Zimmerman because of his skin color. (I have black friends who never refer to white people as crackers, even the ones they don't like.) He attacked him and tried to kill him after describing him in such a way. It was a hate crime. (Don't forget, I am an Arab, I am not caucasian. The race card won't work here.) If his "supporters" don't have enough sense to think of a solution that doesn't involve assault and attempted murder, that shows the level of integrity they possess. From theirs, and your point of view, it's okay to attack and attempt to murder someone for following you because you don't like it, but it's not okay for him to protect himself. You defend Trayvon for doing so, but freely admit that you don't want your kid to do that same thing? Doesn't make sense to me or anyone else with half a mind. If you had a valid argument, you would not resort to contradicting yourself. It's about race to you, period.